Star Forge Titan

"What's wrong, newcomer? Why do you suddenly look so lost? Didn't we make a fortune?" Lilith looked at Ivan with a concerned look, as if to say, "Is this kid's brain okay?"

"I take back what I said before. This money is fake..." Alvin leaned against the wall with a look of despair on his face.

If he had known from the beginning that this was just a model, he probably wouldn't have felt so uncomfortable.

But at the beginning, I really thought that this was a universal warship that could be used in multiple dimensions of land, sea, air, and the outer ether, and I really thought it was equipped with an infinite magic creation device.

In this way, the strong sense of gap is really uncomfortable.

Alvin even wanted to hug this useless iron ball and cry.

Raising my hand to hold down the iron ball, it felt really hard to push against, too hard...

At this moment, Alvin accidentally input a trace of magic power into the iron ball.

In an instant, all the complex machines around started working for about one second.

The sudden change made the black-haired boy and the halfling girl stare at everything around them in amazement.

After several seconds, Alvin finally confirmed a fact, that is, the magic power he unintentionally input actually caused the battleship model to move slightly.

In other words, if I hold this iron lump in my arms for 24 hours a day and infuse magic power into it, maybe I can really make this battleship model, no, the model battleship move like a real battleship?

So, although this is a model, it could also be a... a bicycle???

Chapter 68: Casing Factory

This result made Alvin feel more acceptable.

Although in conclusion, it has been transformed from a model ornament into a bicycle, which may still be a little far from a children's electric toy car, it can still be used.

This model battleship obviously has a complete internal structure, and no expense was spared in the use of materials. It can be regarded as a large-scale movable model with detailed internal structure.

Then, an idea quickly came to the black-haired boy's mind. If injecting magic power into it could activate this model battleship, then could he let others try it too? Or even replace it with other magical creatures?

In that case, can I upgrade from a bicycle to an electric vehicle or a hand-crank tractor?

Based on this, the thoughts in his mind extended step by step. Alvin suddenly stood there in silence for two seconds, as if he had a subtle sense of self-loathing for coming up with a certain idea.

But he quickly put this unnecessary affectation behind him. This idea was quite feasible and could solve another problem that needed to be dealt with.

"Let's leave here first. The light might attract bugs." As he said that, Alvin bent down and walked towards the exit of the model battleship.

"Hey? Newbie, what happened just now? Why did everything around us suddenly move?" Lilith trotted up to catch up with Ivan and asked in confusion.

"To put it simply, we may be able to use this ship to leave, but it doesn't look like it's completely finished, so its capabilities are not complete. Some parts may have to be manually adjusted or supplemented by manpower." Alvin thought about it and selectively told some truths.

"Great! This ship is so big, can we bring those little guys with us? With those big monster bugs here, the ruins in the belly of the Sandworm King are also very dangerous to them." Lilith kindly suggested.

"Yeah, I think so too. They can also help with some navigation tasks that require sufficient manpower to complete." Ivan paused:

"Of course, this is based on their willingness."

While talking, the two returned to the third bridge.

Alvin now confirmed one thing, that is, his identity as a descendant of the Titans gives him certain natural privileges in most of the giant ruins.

It's not surprising. The authentication method based on the absolutely unique core talent [Reshaping the World] is basically impossible to crack for beings other than awakened descendants of Titans.

Of course, without special authorization, the equipment he can operate is now limited to a safe range, the simplest of which is the switch of lighting equipment.

Sitting in the captain's seat on the third bridge again, the information transmitted by the magic resonance told Alvin the official name of this seat.

Different from the first bridge which truly serves as the central command center and the second bridge which specializes in auxiliary matters such as damage control.

The third bridge actually has two uses. In wartime, it is used as an observation point on the surface of the factory-type mobile fortress Herbert. In normal times, it is used as a control room specifically responsible for various management and control matters of the large factories inside the fortress.

By the way, the existence of the model battleship also made Alvin realize that there may be other ways to leave the Sandworm King Herbert besides the main entrance.

After all, this model battleship was an experimental tool commissioned by a factory-type mobile fortress to prepare for the production of a real universal battleship, so it is very likely that it will need to be transferred to other research sites.

From this, it can be inferred that there is likely some kind of large entrance and exit near the third bridge that is large enough to accommodate the exit of this 70-meter-long model.

While thinking, Ivan was also turning off the lights around the third bridge when he suddenly heard Lilith scream.

"Newbie, come and look! What is that!?!"

The half-orc girl was lying on the observation window on the other side of the metal warship with her back to it, and her voice was filled with uncontrollable shock and astonishment.

Following her gaze, Alvin looked at another area he had not noticed before, and then he was also stunned.

Although the lights were turning off one after another, the remaining white light still illuminated a very wide area.

When he saw that area, Alvin suddenly realized why the legendary Herbert, the king of sandworms, was named a factory-type mobile fortress by the giants.

On the huge ceiling made entirely of metal, one can see cylindrical protrusions cast in high-strength metal. They look like the backbone of a vertebrate, but where does a segmented creature get its backbone? Those should be the metal keels artificially added to the King of Sandworms to increase the overall strength of this mobile fortress.

Both sides of the wide area under the ceiling are filled with various complex mechanical equipment. Even after thousands of years, these machines are still in continuous operation, making the entire area look like an extra-large multifunctional production line full of industrial atmosphere.

But what is truly shocking is the existence of this thing lying among the many mechanical devices.

It was a giant sandworm that was over two hundred meters long. According to the knowledge of sandworm hunters, even among the large sandworms that had fully entered adulthood, it was definitely the largest one.

But what makes this sandworm different from ordinary sandworms is that the sandworm in front of us, which is more than 200 meters long, actually reflects a silvery metallic luster under the light.

Two-thirds of the sandworm's originally rough yellow-brown skin has now been replaced by a layer of metal coating, and the shape of its head has also become very strange.

Solid metal replaced the skin, the observation organs were replaced with crystalline mechanical eyes, and the layers of teeth in the ring-shaped mouth were replaced with a large number of drills and saws.

Case type...

It must be the case type!

Ivan stood up suddenly, his breathing becoming faster.

The shell species, that was a special mechanical life form transformed by the last Titan - the Star Forger, which he had seen in the virtual Paladia. It was also one of the purposes of the so-called machine world sublimation ceremony.

And that special mechanical life form actually has extremely similar characteristics to the sandworm in front of him.

This further confirmed some of Alvin's guesses.

At the same time, this scene also made him suddenly recall the words that were engraved in the learning machine by the ancestors of the cat and cat worm.

"Secret Order No. 99 from the Great Emperor! His Majesty wishes us to build the Kingdom's final fortress city, a thousand kilometers deep underground! All comrades in the Factory-Type Mobile Fortress Prototype - Herbert 001, including Comrade Fortress himself and all his transformed descendants, will devote all their efforts to this goal! No matter the cost!"

At all costs...

Alvin suddenly realized the heavy weight contained in this word.

Could it be that the sandworms roaming the Silent Desert are actually living material prepared for transformation into these mechanical creatures? And the factory-type mobile fortress, Herbert, the King of Sandworms, is, in a sense, a shell factory dedicated to transforming sandworms into mechanical shells!

On the other hand, what kind of astonishing fortress city would the City of Hades, which required so many large-scale machine shells and years of construction, be?

"Abyss..." Whispering this name that symbolizes the abyss, Ivan was so shocked at this moment.

"Hey? Newbie, that looks like your horse?" Lilith's words suddenly woke the black-haired boy up.

My horse? What horse?

Isn't the Sanwang tied up at the entrance of the ruins waiting for us to come out...

Alvin's thoughts came to an abrupt end when he saw a black horse with its tongue hanging out, quietly hiding behind a roaring machine with a sneaky little movement that was completely different from its tall body, and from time to time it would peek outside at the giant sandworm that was being continuously transformed.

The most ridiculous thing is that although the running machine blocked the front half of Sanwang's body, the back half of his horse's butt and the swinging tail were completely exposed.

Seeing this scene, Alvin was so angry that his nose was crooked, but at the same time he felt it was a little funny.

This naughty big weird horse must have been too bored waiting outside, so he bit off the reins and sneaked in.

God knows how it avoided those groups of dangerous insects and beasts, and was able to safely pass through the surface area and run all the way to this casing factory deep in the ruins.

Lilith, who was also covering her mouth and laughing, suddenly thought of a question. Her whole body shook violently, and the twin ponytails at the back of her head bounced upward slightly, which showed how intense her emotions were.

"Newcomer, is there a 'Scent of Time' in the belly of that giant sandworm?"

The halfling thief, who usually spoke like a machine gun, was actually stuttering at this moment, and looked at the black-haired boy with hopeful eyes.

Hearing her words, Alvin was also stunned for a moment, but he quickly shook his head.

"It's not impossible, but even if there is, it should have been extracted and used elsewhere before the transformation, right?"

If sandworms are indeed semi-wild free-range biological materials, then the fragrance of time should also be a special resource regularly collected by the factory-type mobile fortress. This also explains where the concentrated fragrance of time on the group of insect beasts comes from.

"Forget it, let's go get that naughty 'little' horse first. I don't want to see it get sucked into the machine and turned into a pile of minced meat." Rubbing his aching temple, Ivan said helplessly:

"Wow, that's true." Lilith shuddered. Knowing Sanwang's temper, she realized that the probability of this situation happening was not low.

But the two of them obviously grumbled about the courage of the mountain king and how mischievous he was.

Before the two of them could even walk out of the third bridge, the naughty horse, which was obviously a horse but was sneaking around among various machines, was locked by a mechanical arm passing on the high-level track.

With an eerie "Shhhhh?" sound, a massive, powerful robotic arm, like a smaller counterpart in a claw machine, snatched Sanwang from the ground.

Even though this super tall horse, which is nearly three meters tall and has muscles as strong as steel, is still unable to break free from the ancient mechanical creation.

But it seemed that it had not seen such living material for a long time. The robotic arm that had been running non-stop actually paused for a second. Then, based on some judgment mechanism, it began to move the screaming Sanwang after being caught to other machines.

"Oh no!" Ivan and Lilim shouted at the same time.

But the two people were obviously too far away to lend a helping hand in time, and could only watch Sanwang being thrown into a roaring machine.

Ivan's eyes widened as he watched. He even vaguely heard Shan Wang let out a scream that sounded like a very shrill and terrified scream from an insect-phobic person who had a cockroach fall on him.

"Oh no!" Lilith covered her face, unable to bear to look at the cruel scene that might happen next.

The machine continued to roar without mercy, mixed with a series of strange "hissing, puffing" sounds of horses.

"..." Ivan did not put down his raised hand for a long time. He realized that the situation seemed different from what he had imagined.

If the Mountain King had already been reduced to ground horse meat, why was he still roaring so loudly and so energetically?

Not long after, accompanied by a burst of white mist, the baffle at the bottom of the roaring machine lifted up, revealing an exit from which the internal scene could not be seen clearly.

Through the white mist that had not yet dissipated, Alvin saw a strange figure slowly walking out of the exit.

Is that... Sanwang?

Or something else...?

Chapter 69: Motorcycle

The smoke covering the huge machine gradually dissipated, and the first thing that caught Alvin's eyes was a metal plate made of gold above it.

The stable nature of gold has prevented this metal plate from decaying even after thousands of years, and it is still firmly fixed by rivets to the casing of the roaring machine.

There were a few lines of poetry written in the Uranian language.

[The hammer fell and the bell roared.]

Praise be to the giant god of steel and burning iron, praise be to Lemnos the Black Hammer.

The might of the new type of shell that was upgraded today will one day smite the evil that twisted flesh and blood.

This is……

Alvin was suddenly startled, and then he noticed that all the roaring machines in the factory were actually connected to this machine.

Thick cables that had not been sorted for who knows how many years were now scattered freely in every corner of the factory like wildly growing vines, but they all originated from the mysterious device shrouded in mist in front of them.

The Giant God of Forged Steel and Burning Iron, could that be the honorific name of a Titan?

Black Hammer Lemnos, what kind of existence would that be? A weapon? Or a mechanical device?

Could that be the key to the transformation of the machine shell? Or perhaps it was the source of the power of machine sublimation?

And could it be that the reason why the sandworms that were swallowed by the Sandworm King turned into this half-mechanical, half-living appearance is also related to it?

In other words, it's a hammer that can upgrade a life form into a machine type?

Could it be in this machine?

New questions kept popping up in Alvin's mind.

But what appeared before him immediately made him temporarily unable to think about what the so-called Black Hammer Lemnos was...

The mountain king looked unharmed, with even the dark red mane on the back of his neck intact, as if the horse that had just screamed in fear was not him.

The only change that can be directly witnessed is probably the shape of the mountain king. Its standing height is now more than three meters, and the muscles all over its body have become more perfect, as if they have been completely optimized.

Is this a biological enhancement device?

Alvin walked up to the Mountain King in disbelief, only to discover that the bad-tempered horse's muscles were as solid as cast steel, and he couldn't even feel the elasticity that biological muscles should have.

Um? wrong!